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Dynamic Tractable Reasoning: A Modular Approach to Belief Revision

Dynamic Tractable Reasoning: A Modular Approach to Belief Revision

Andreas, Holger

Hardcover

Series: Synthese Library, Book 420

PhilosophyGeneral ComputersLogic

ISBN10: 3030362329
ISBN13: 9783030362324
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 28 2020
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning. It draws on Marvin Minsky's seminal work on frames, which has been highly influential in computer science and, to a lesser extent, in cognitive science. Only very few people have explored ideas about frames in logic, which is why the investigation in this book breaks new ground. The apparent intractability of dynamic, inferential reasoning is an unsolved problem in both cognitive science and logic-oriented artificial intelligence. By means of a logical investigation of frames and frame concepts, Andreas devises a novel logic of tractable reasoning, called frame logic. Moreover, he devises a novel belief revision scheme, which is tractable for frame logic. These tractability results shed new light on our logical and cognitive means to carry out dynamic, inferential reasoning. Modularity remains central for tractability, and so the author sets forth a logical variant of the massive modularity hypothesis in cognitive science.

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